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In the Onyx Lobby
Carolyn Wells
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"Me; Rick. Open the door, please."
"What's the matter? You sick?" his aunt exclaimed, as she unlocked her door.
"No; now, listen, Aunt Letitia, and don't faint—for anything. Uncle Binney is—has been—why, somebody killed him!"
"Killed him! Is he dead?"
"Yes, ma'am"; both were unaware of the absurdity of the words, "he's downstairs,—in the lobby,—and he's been stabbed."
Richard's teeth were chattering from the tension of his nerves, and the horror of the situation, but Miss Prall's nerves were strong ones, and she said, "I'll dress and go right down. And I'll tell Eliza,—you needn't. Go in the living-room and wait for me there."
Rather relieved at not being sent back downstairs and decidedly willing to let his aunt break the news to Miss Gurney, Bates went to his own room and added some finishing touches to the hasty to. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I was only a few pages in when I realized I have heard a similar plot before. Two single parent figures, neighbors, having a long-running but unexplained feud - and their children secretly in love? This is the same plot as the 1960 off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks; but its heritage goes back muc
It's not a bad mystery, if you can get around the plodding dialog. Her random social commentary is annoying, and the assumptions they all, especially the police, operate under are so glaringly wrong. Most of the characters are rather unnaturally oblivious to the fact there was a murder in their fam
Lots of silly and confusing talk. Not even slightly believable.
Seemed to be quite a few loose ends/clues that were never quite tied up in the end. A few I had to go back and figure out after finishing, and others simply weren't resolved. The moment the mystery was solved, the book ended, without satisfactory conclusion of the subplots and evidence chains that w
I liked the private detective in this story but everyone else seemed a bit crazy, even the cops. Guess that comes from a book written in 1920, although I've read other Carolyn Wells books. This one just seemed weak. The main characters didn't seem to take seriously the murder of one of their relativ